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SANFORD ‘ROSÉ’ COHEN, 1934-2018

Sanford “Rosé” Cohen was an American poet.

Cohen died at age 83, on April 4, 2018, from complications from pneumonia.

“Think Byron filtered through Hunter S. Thomson and Bob Dylan crooned by Desi Arnaz,” political cartoonist Jonathan Richards wrote in his review of Cohen’s 2012 book, The Pearl Upon the Crown.

Synergetic Press editor, Linda Sperling, first published Cohen’s work in a broadsheet and published The Pearl and Cohen’s 2001 book Poetraits.

Early Life

Cohen was born in the Bronx borough of New York City in 1934. He graduated from high school at 16 and earned a bachelor’s degree in teaching from City College of New York in 1954. He attended Columbia University to study to be a pharmacist, and left to join the Army. He was a typist in the Army for two years.

He received a master’s degree in 1962 from City College, and then worked as an English teacher in New York.

Personal Life He married Linda Gordon in 1971, and the pair lived in Hawaii, the Yucatán Peninsula, Jamaica and Miami before moving to the Southwest in the early 1970s.

He had two daughters, Nicteha Rebecca Cohen, born in the Yucatán, and Bella Fiesta Cohen, born in Santa Fe, NM

Poetry and Published Works

Cohen has two books of published poetry available in 2021: "Poetraits", published on Oct 15, 2000, and "The Pearl Upon the Crown", published on Jun 12, 2011. Both are available on Amazon

He also published the World-Wide Home Rental Guide for several years in the 1990s, a publication described as a pre-internet incarnation of Airbnb.

Later Life and Death

Cohen was a devoted patron and promoter of the late “Atomic Artist” Tony Price — an anti-nuclear activist who created some of his work from scrap salvaged from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Cohen arranged Price’s first showing in New York City. And in 2005, after Price died, Cohen arranged a retrospective of his work at the United Nations in New York, an exhibit for which he received support from the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.

Cohen died at age 83, on April 4, 2018, from complications from pneumonia.